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US 10,652,095 B2Granted
Dynamic assignment of signals to ports in an access platform
AssigneeComcast Cable Communications, LLC
InventorJorge Salinger
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Abstract
Signals may be forwarded to a variety of ports for transmission. The signals may be modulated for transmission. The forwarding of signals to ports may be accomplished by forwarding the signals to one or more signal modulators using a processing unit. The mapping of signals to ports may change responsive to a triggering event.
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A method comprising:
- based on a mapping of signals to ports, outputting, by a computing device, the signals via the ports, wherein the ports comprise a first set of ports, and wherein one of the signals comprises a first signal that is mapped to each port in the first set of ports;
- receiving, by the computing device and from at least one network device, a signal indicator;
- and
- causing, based on the signal indicator, an update of the mapping.
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A method comprising:
- determining, by a computing device and based on a mapping of signals to sets of output ports that comprise a first set of multiple output ports and a second set of multiple output ports, a first modulator associated with the first set of multiple output ports and a second modulator associated with the second set of multiple output ports;
- forwarding a first signal to the determined first modulator to generate a first modulated signal and a second signal to the determined second modulator to generate a second modulated signal;
- and
- outputting, based on the mapping, the first modulated signal via the first set of multiple output ports and the second modulated signal via the second set of multiple output ports.
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A method comprising:
- causing, by a computing device and based on a mapping of signals to output ports, transmission of a first set of the signals to a plurality of network devices via a plurality of the output ports;
- generating, by the computing device, an updated mapping after receiving an indication of user preferences;
- causing, based on the updated mapping, transmission of a second set of the signals via the plurality of the output ports;
- wherein the mapping associates a first modulator with a first subset of multiple output ports of the plurality of the output ports and associates a second modulator with a second subset of multiple output ports of the plurality of the output ports;
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- wherein at least one signal of the first set of the signals is mapped to each of the output ports of the first subset of multiple output ports and at least one signal of the second set of the signals is mapped to each of the output ports of the second subset of multiple output ports.
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